One month from today, the always-busy Mountain Goats will release their new album Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan. It’s a concept LP about shipwreck survivors living on a desert island, and it’s dedicated to Peter Hughes, the longtime bassist who left the band last year. The Mountain Goats are releasing this one on their own Cadmean Dawn label, …

Tron: Ares hits theaters this Friday, and the movie premiere went down last night at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Along with stars Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, and more appearing on the red carpet, the evening also had Nine Inch Nails performing the soundtrack live for the first time.

On their latest single “I’m A Pretty Showboy,” Brighton’s Opus Kink sounds like they wouldn’t be able to sit still even if someone had a gun to their head. The new single is a chaotic mix of seductive sighs, a bass line as relentless as a blood-thirsty shark, and trumpet cries eager to show some leg. There’s something campy about …

Manchester’s Shaking Hand make sprawling, evocative post-rock tracks and take a whole lot of inspiration from different strains of American indie rock from the ’90s. A few months ago, we posted the trio’s debut single “Over The Coals.” Early next year, they’ll release their self-titled debut, recorded in Leeds with producer David Pye. Their new seven-minute song “Mantras” is an …

Chicago-born R&B singer Ravyn Lenae recently graduated from cult stardom to actual stardom, as her 2024 single “Love Me Not” caught fire on TikTok, climbing as high as #5 on the Hot 100. (It’s #9 this week, at least until all the Taylor Swift numbers come in.) These days, Lenae is a big enough deal to get Donald Glover to …

Last month, country-rock superstar Zach Bryan played the largest ticketed concert in US history — more than 112,000 fans crammed into Michigan Stadium. Bryan, never known as a particularly political artist, is among the most popular musicians in the country right now, and he has irked the Department of Homeland Security by singing anti-ICE lyrics on a song that hasn’t …

Tame Impala’s new album Deadbeat arrives next week, and Kevin Parker has scored his first Billboard Hot 100 hit with the latest single “Dracula.” Today, Fcukers were announced as openers for his North American tour this fall.

Next month, Queens-based songwriter Hannah Pruzinsky aka h. pruz is releasing a new album Red sky at morning, the follow-up to their 2024 debut album No Glory. Today they’ve shared the new single “Krista,” which comes with a video made from a homemade childhood YouTube horror series Pruzinsky made with their cousin Molly Schenkenberger.

“In 2025, Bon Iver announced his retirement, and the search began for his replacement.” That’s the setup, anyway. Bon Iver leader Justin Vernon is not retiring, as far as anyone knows, and you can’t exactly replace a solo artist in his own band. But that’s the conceit of director Jos Diaz Contreras’ cameo-jammed video for “Day One,” a song from …

In August, Joyce Manor returned with the Smiths-indebted earworm “All My Friends Are So Depressed.” Now, the Torrance band is announcing their new album I Used To Go To This Bar and sharing “Well, Whatever It Was” along with tour dates.